I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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[The raindrops] played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. ~Gary D. Schmidt
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling. ~Hugh Jackman
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you. ~Max Lucado
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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